SF News Early Morning Shooting on Bay Bridge Leaves One Man Critically Injured A man was shot in the chest on the right shoulder of the eastbound lanes of the Bay Bridge just past Treasure Island Wednesday morning, and he is in critical condition.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Independent Bay Area Restaurants May Get Relief From $28.6B Piece of Stimulus Package Under the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that the House was taking a final vote on today, a new fund will provide relief money — up to $5M each — to independent restaurants that won't need to be put toward payroll.
SF News Shower of Hail in Santa Rosa Leads to Six-Car Collision A hail shower Wednesday morning in Santa Rosa reportedy led to a six-car crash in the western part of the city, and possibly to a big-rig crash involving three vehicles on 101.
SF Politics Peskin and Chan Appear Likely to Thwart Ferris Wheel Extension, Shorten It To One Year At Tuesday's SF Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Connie Chan maneuvered to get their way and keep Rec & Parks from extending the contract for the 150-foot-tall observation wheel in Golden Gate Park for another four years.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Lightning Explodes Redwood Tree In San Jose A man and his two dogs had to be rescued from a Fort Funston cliff on Tuesday evening, a Twitter account will tell you when Moscone appointments open up, and a lightning strike blew apart a redwood tree and shattered windows in a San Jose neighborhood.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Expected to Hit 'Orange' Tier March 23 The Oakland homeless man who was set on fire last week has died from his injuries, SF approves hazard pay for grocery workers, and SF is expected to reach "Orange" status in two weeks.
SF Politics Former Nuru Girlfriend and 'Fix-It Team' Head Sandra Zuniga Pleads Guilty In Federal Corruption Probe Sandra Zuniga, formerly the head of San Francisco's Office of Neighborhood Services (a.k.a. the Fix-It Team), has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering, and will cooperate with federal investigators' ongoing corruption probe.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland and Berkeley Restaurants Prepare to Have Indoor Dining Again as Alameda County Turns 'Red' After only having limited-capacity indoor dining for three short weeks since the pandemic began, restaurants in Alameda County are preparing to once again allow patrons indoors starting on Wednesday.
SF News Arrest Made In Armed Robbery of KPIX Reporter's Camera at Twin Peaks The San Francisco Police Department on Tuesday released a few more details about last week's armed robbery of a KPIX crew's camera at Twin Peaks — which, ironically, was stolen while the reporter was there to report on all the theft going on in the area.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Japanese Curry Spot Forced to Close Right After Opening In Marina District Because of SF's Formula Retail Rules In yet another argument for why SF neighborhoods can not afford to be too picky about what kinds of retail and restaurants they get in the midst of a retail apocalypse, the first U.S. location of Hinoya Curry was forced to close just weeks after opening in order to go through a permitting process.
SF News [Update] Awful Woman Coughs on SF Uber Driver, Tries to Steal His Phone After Being Told to Wear a Mask An Uber driver picked up a classy trio of young women during the brunch hours of Sunday in San Francisco, only to have one of them swear at him and cough on him after being told she needed to wear a mask.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Santa Clara Won't Use Blue Shield's Vaccine Help Santa Clara County is refusing to sign an agreement with Blue Shield for vaccine coordination and other counties may follow, the Johnson & Johnson one-dose vaccine arrives in the Bay, and the NYT has controversially declared California's bagels superior to New York's.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stimulus Package Solves SF's $650M Budget Problem Ghost Ship fire defendant Derick Almena was sentenced today to further house confinement and restitution, SF hit a new four-month low in COVID cases, and the city's budget deficit is getting wiped away by the federal stimulus bill.
SF News Golden Gate Fields Physician Featured On '60 Minutes' Story About New Drug For COVID Patients Dr. David Seftel, the physician for the 500 employees and their families at the East Bay racetrack Golden Gate Fields, recently played a role in the early study of a common psychiatric drug, fluvoxamine, to treat COVID.
SF News Blue Boy, One of the Two Swans at the Palace of Fine Arts Lagoon, Has Died From Zinc and Lead Poisoning A 17-year-old male mute swan, one of two who have ruled over the lagoon at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, died last week of apparent zinc and lead poisoning — which his mate was also being treated for in recent weeks.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Maven Is Closing After Nine Good Years In the Lower Haight Chalk up another pandemic casualty in the bar and restaurant scene, and this one is going to hurt for denizens of the Lower Haight — Maven is closing on March 29.
SF News Want a Vaccine Before You're Eligible? California Creates New Volunteer Sign-Up Site Mass-vaccination sites across the state of California are in need of volunteers. For those eager to get a vaccine shot before they're eligible without committing any ethical misdeeds, there may be opportunities in your area to volunteer some time and receive a vaccine.
SF News Rain and Possible Thunderstorms Move Into the Bay Area Monday A bit more potentially dramatic weather is arriving today and tomorrow, with the possibility of some rare thunder and lightning that hopefully won't spark any fires this time.
SF News SF Woman Horrified That Man Who Assaulted Her In September Was Back on Street and Allegedly Raped a Woman In November A local news station in San Francisco has uncovered a story that will add fuel to the anger about lawlessness in the city and the DA's office's policies when it comes to freeing suspects from custody.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Ghost Ship Defendant Derick Almena to Be Sentenced The CDC has issued new guidance for the vaccinated, three people were injured in a head-on collision stemming from sideshows in Solano County, and Willie Brown has had his second shot and says he's feeling just fine.
Arts & Entertainment Block-Long Mural By Local Artist Amos Goldbaum Completed on Noe Valley Street A mural on one of SF's Slow Streets — a block of Sanchez Street in Noe Valley between 24th and Elizabeth streets — now has a very tall/long new mural that is best viewed via drone.
Arts & Entertainment Is It Time To Feel Some Hope For San Francisco Again? The magnolias and the plum blossoms are out. And where last spring arrived shrouded in dread, this spring is tiptoeing in with hope and brightness to spare. But is it too soon to get giddy? We've been burned before.
SF News Two-Alarm Fire Contained In Castro As Police Seek Knife-Wielding Suspected Linked to Blaze A fire broke out around noon Friday at a residence at 112 Eureka Street near 18th Street, at the edge of the Castro District and Eureka Valley.
SF Politics East Bay Congressman Eric Swalwell Sues Trump and Giuliani Over Capitol Riot Adding to the list of lawsuits Donald Trump will be facing in the coming year or three, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin) has filed a civil suit against the former president and his co-conspirators for inciting the January 6 riot at the Capitol.
SF News Three Black Men Say They Were Victims of Racial Profiling at Union Square Saks Store Three men who say they had come to shop Wednesday, as they often do, at the Saks Fifth Avenue store on Post Street in Union Square, say they were the victims of racial profiling and were detained for hours by San Francisco police after doing nothing wrong.
